Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 24
He hunted for the King of Finntraigh, and it soon grew evident that there was no hunter in his service to equal Fionn.
Who acts: Fionn, kingdom · What happens: hunt, grow, be, equal, service · To what, where: service, evident hunter, Fionn
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fionn, kingdom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hunted | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Finntraigh | case |
| 7 | Finntraigh | Finntraigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | advmod |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hunted | conj |
| 13 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hunter | amod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hunter | cop |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 hunter | det |
| 18 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 service | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 service | nmod:poss |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 equal | mark |
| 23 | equal | equal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 grew | advcl |
| 24 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 equal | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | Fionn | for the King of Finntraigh | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | kingdom | Fionn's service | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in service=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | no evident hunter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | equal | to-infinitive | kingdom not said here | Fionn | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | service | Fionn | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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